Gangs of New York

…Oscar-nominated script for Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York (2002) before writing and directing Margaret, about a teenage girl (Anna Paquin) whose distraction of a bus driver (Ruffalo) results in a fatal accident. It was filmed in 2005, but editing disagreements between Lonergan and the studio—which led to three lawsuits—delayed…

Gangs of New York (2002) was a project Scorsese had sought to film since the late 1970s. It had an epic canvas: the chaotic peril of 1860s New York City, culminating in the Draft Riot of 1863. Leonardo DiCaprio (in the first of a number…

(1993), Casino (1995), Kundun (1997), Gangs of New York (2002), The Departed (2006; winner of an Academy Award for best picture), and The Irishman (2019), the latter of which made use of CGI to make veteran actors look decades younger.

…anti-immigrant gang leader in Scorsese’s Gangs of New York, a drama set in the mid-19th century. He subsequently starred in the intimate The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005), which was written and directed by Miller’s daughter Rebecca, whom he had married in 1996. In 2008 Day-Lewis won a second…

…Daniel Day-Lewis in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. The acclaimed crime drama centers on a brutal fight between rival gangs in the 1860s. After appearing in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003), Diaz starred in the romantic comedies The Holiday (2006), which also featured Kate Winslet, and What Happens in…

DiCaprio appeared in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York, a period piece about gangsters in New York City in the mid-1800s. It was the first of many films that DiCaprio made with the Scorsese. That year DiCaprio also starred opposite Tom Hanks as the real-life con artist Frank Abagnale, Jr.,…